JANE AND LUCY LOVE FOOD

Ok, so I noticed that alot of my posts are regarding food. Yes, this Jane  and Lucy love food and we love to eat. Please refrain from any comments, Dick. Dick is somewhere laughing saying, “Yeah they do!”. Whatever!

However, I think Lucy loves food even more than I do. When I’m around Lucy, inevitably, she will be saying these sentences at some point in the day…separately, consecutively, repeatedly, or in combination.

“I’m hungry.”

“What are we going to eat?”

“I’m SO hungry!”

“Oh, I’m so full!”

“I’m sleepy now.”

I think this must be one the of reasons why she loves being in LA…You can get all kinds of food from all different cultures. You just have to drive an hour to get there! I don’t believe I have ever driven so much for lunch at an establishment.

On this day, Lucy and I were craving Dim Sum. The girls love dim sum so we brought them as well as their cousin, Will. We head to a great Dim Sum restaurant in Monterey Park.

DIM SUM: CHINESE BRUNCH

If you have never had dim sum and are ADVENTUROUS to try it, it is a Chinese “brunch” where the food is carted around so that you may pick and choose what you would like to eat.

The food consists of a wide variety of traditional chinese dumplings, vegetables, seafood, meat, and desserts and is offered in small portions so that you can try many different things. It’s SO yummy.For more on Dim Sum, click HERE.

It’s like eating a bunch of different appetizers or hors d’oeuvres instead of one main meal. I love it because you get variety and get to taste a little bit of everything!

Each plate has a different price but most dishes range anywhere from $2-$5 each. The cart-pusher (I don’t know what they are called. Hope this is not offensive to anyone.)  pushes this cart around and stops by your table. You look or they show you what they have. If you like it, they’ll check off a pre-printed bill that tells what size plate you selected and the accompanying price. They just keep going around the restaurant so if you want something, stop them.

THE FOOD

SIU MAI, HA GAO, EGG ROLLS, VEGGIES, TOFU AND MORE…

So there are plenty of “different” things you can get when eating dim sum like CHICKEN FEET (yuck) or DUCK FEET (yuck) or BEEF TRIPE (Ok, I love this.) but we get the usual things…

Siu Mai.

There were 4, we already ate two. This is like a wonton but meatier and I believe it is made from ground pork. This restaurant’s siu mai was especially tasty. They also had added some shrimp. Yum!

Ha Gao.

Except, not. The kids love the Ha Gao so much I didn’t get a chance to take a picture before they inhaled it. This shrimp dumpling is similar except it’s not round and the shrimp also has some veggies inside.

Steamed veggies with a thick soy sauce, eggrolls, and black-egg congee (rice porridge).

She’s cutting up the portions so you don’t have to. All you have are those slippery plastic chopsticks.

Tofu.

Yes, this is tofu. It’s tofu crepe-like rolls filled with a bit of meat, bamboo shoots and a ginger-soy like sauce. Extremely tasty!

BBQ Pork-filled buns.

The bread is soft like dinner rolls and slightly sweet.

Egg Custard.

There’s so much more that you can try: shrimp balls, eggplant, fried squid legs, pastries, tarot root, all sorts of dumplings, etc.

Oh, I miss dim sum. There’s none here in Metropolis.

-Jane, Dim Sum LOVER!

We love to eat Dim Sum but there are no restaurants that have this in our area. So, I have the next best thing. Frozen dumplings. So, I whipped up these fried vegetarian leek gyoza for our Sunday “brunch”. It’s fast, you just follow the directions on the bag, and voila! Serve with some sauce and you’re ready to go. Yum yum!

For those who haven’t had Dim Sum before, it’s a Chinese cuisine that involves a range of light dumplings and small samplers. It’s great because you get to try so many different things! Click HERE to see what Wikipedia has to say about it.

My girls are experienced chopstick users…But of course! They’re Vietnamese!

How do you like my Japanese table that I built myself! Yes, Jane can build.

Music, Love Bud, and Monk get to join us too…kinda…they get to watch. lol

-Jane, Dim Sum Fan